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In article <4fr8be$ass@news.iconn.net> thecrow@iconn.net (The Crow) writes:

> Here is what I am trying to do, I want to find the last NON-ZERO digit of a 
> given factorial.  For instance,

> 5! = 120

> so the last non-zero digit is 2.  I want to be able to do this up to 1000.  
> Problem is, no matter how huge of a data-type you use, there isn't any way for 
> the computer to handle 1000!,

Sure there is.  Lots of people have written programs to do
arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic.

But a few minutes of thought convinced me that the problem
you pose can be solved very easily, without arbitrary precision
arithmetic.  I would tell you how to do it, but the problem
looks like a homework assignment and I don't want to contribute
to academic plagiarism.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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